Slides for Week 3 of the HCI for Digital Civics module.

1. Human-Computer Interaction
for Digital Civics
Week 3: People as Designers
John Vines john.vines@ncl.ac.uk

2. Recap and discussion:
People as Agents
10 minutes
tell your partner the ‘key idea’
tell your partner what other ideas and
literature are referred to
tell your partner how it relates to something
you already know about

3. Tell us something about…
45 minutes
get into groups of 3
about:
one person – write down any search terms and places you search
one person – note down everything that is found and discussed
one/two people – search on laptops for group
quick (5 minute) presentations at the end
there’s no right or wrong answers (today)!

4. Tell us something about:
… involving people actively in the
design of new technologies
45 minutes
tell us some examples
tell us a positive
tells us a negative
tell us how it might relate to digital civics

5. Before next week
read one of the papers each – decide among your group who
reads which
as before identify related papers that would be useful to read
again - by the end of Thursday, write a short (more than 300
words, less than 500) reflective commentary on what you have
learnt about the origins of HCI based on the activity today and
the paper(s) you read – post this as a comment on the ‘week 2’
page on the module website.
You will be getting some comments (from Rachel) on last weeks
posts – maybe respond to them.
Matt
Mohammed
Marshall
Ian
Emma
Matthieu
Vidya
Alexander
Sunil
Andy
Angelika
Jan
Nikolai